Archive for juin, 2008
Interview for Telematicsupdate about OpenCellID
Following conference Telematicsupdate conference about LBS, I’ve been interviewed by Thomas about OpenCellid and impact on the industry. Result is here: Towards free location on all devices.
Adding location to a non GPS phone : using OpenCellID
1) Introduction
In this two parts article, we will introduce mobile positioning with CellID, and the open source database of CellIDs: OpenCellID. We will see how to use it through a simple sample. The second part will demonstrate how to use OpenCellID with OpenStreeMap and the 8Motion library to create a full interactive mobile mapping experience [...]
Lonely Planet API
Big news in my view in the tourist area: Lonely Planet, one of the biggest brand in traditionnal tourist guide, just launched an API to access to his content.
The API is REST/XML based, quite easy to understand. So congrat to Chris (yes, one of the numerous former ex-In-Fusio guys in this area!)
A nice mobile web [...]